In palette, tone and harmonious treatment of light, this painting resembles his 1920 painting Squaws Preparing Sweat Teepee. (related image, #19) It features Sharp's prized Blackfeet buffalo hide teepee that was pitched just outside his Crow Agency studio.

Teepees at Dusk

Record ID: 102

Date: ca. 1920; [ca. 1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Accession Number: 2016.303

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Edith S. Johnson; present owner by gift

Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.

Teepees at Dusk

Related

Squaws Preparing Sweat Teepee; [Preparing for the Medicine Sweat] (1920)

Teepees at Dusk

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